Al Roker proves ‘polar vortex’ isn’t a modern media creation

Most of us hadn’t heard of such a thing as a polar vortex before this week, and it didn’t make anyone smarter when CNN told us that the United States of America had been sucked into one. NBC’s Al Roker decided to drag out the 1959 edition of the American Meteorology Society Glossary of Meteorology to set everyone straight.

For all the doubters who say the media "created" the Polar Vortex: From the 1959 AMS Glossary of Meteorology pic.twitter.com/x2Nyw0jx3j